Cryptantha humilis (Greene) Payson

Sokoloff, Paul C., Freebury, Colin E., Hamilton, Paul B. & Saarela, Jeffery M., 2016, The " Martian " flora: new collections of vascular plants, lichens, fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria from the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah, Biodiversity Data Journal 4, pp. 8176-8176 : 8176

Cryptantha humilis (Greene) Payson

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordNumber: 314; recordedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; preparations: Silica gel collection; Taxon: scientificName: Cryptanthahumilis (Greene) Payson; kingdom: Plantae; phylum: Angiosperms; class: Eudicots; family: Boraginaceae; genus: Cryptantha; specificEpithet: humilis; taxonRank: Species; scientificNameAuthorship: (Greene) Payson; Location: continent: North America; country: United States of America; countryCode: USA; stateProvince: Utah; county: Wayne County; municipality: Hanksville; locality: Mars Desert Research Station ; verbatimLocality: Sandstone plateau immediately southwest of Mars Desert Research Station, alongside ATV trail; verbatimElevation: 1412 m; verbatimLatitude: 38°24'22.4"N; verbatimLongitude: 110°47'40.3"W; coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: 50; Identification: identifiedBy: Sokoloff, Paul C.; dateIdentified: 2015; Event: verbatimEventDate: November 24, 2014; habitat: Dry conglomerate sandstone; Record Level: institutionID: CMN; collectionID: CAN 607504; collectionCode: CAN; basisOfRecord: Preserved Specimen

Notes

This species was previously recorded for the nearby San Rafael Swell as Cryptantha humilis var. nana (Eastw.) L.C. Higgins ( Harris 1983). Welsh et al. (1993) suggests that while var. humilis nana might be applied to plants from the Uinta Basin (north of the study area), however they assert that variation of intraspecific diagnostic characters from across the range of C. humilis does not support the treatment of varieties.

Supplemental File: CAN 607504 (Suppl. material 40).